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A man is believed to be the first murder suspect to be tried from a hospital
bed placed in the court. Sergei Zolotovsky, who is accused of stabbing his
wife Svetlana Zolotovska, 40, and her mother Antonina Belska, 70, lay
propped up on his bed at the Old Bailey, London, flanked by nurses.

Zoe Johnson, prosecuting, said that Latvian-born Mr Zolotovsky had been
involved in acrimonious divorce proceedings. “The evidence suggests he was
paranoid and convinced himself that his wife had been unfaithful,” Ms
Johnson said. Mr Zolotovsky, 44, had written in a letter, found at his home
in North